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Native Youth Preventing Diabetes (NYPD) is a diabetes prevention education program designed to provide Native American children the necessary steps to prevent diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Originally NYPD was executed as a summer camp experience. However as the epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes grows it has been clinically apparent that Type 2 diabetes prevention will require much more intensive intervention than can be provided in a few days during the summer. Lifestyle changes are the primary mode of Type 2 Diabetes prevention. Lifestyle changes are best influenced early in life by an age and culturally appropriate disease prevention education program. NYPD has based it’s intervention education on. read more			NYPD celebrated its 10th year in 2011. NYPD receives Model Program of the year from the Association of American Indian Physicians NYPD Receives National recognition for 4th year in a row! 2007-2010 NYPD's Camp Director, Michelle Dennison, featured in OU Medicine Spotlight Spring 2010 NYPD Received Legacy Funding for NYPD 2011 Planning NYPD Camp 2012 - Check back for details Registration Information NYPD Newsletters available - view now NYPD Camp Pictures are available- view now

NYPD Coalition Members : Absentee Shawnee Tribe Caddo Nation Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes Citizen Potawatomi Nation Iowa Nation Kaw Nation Kickapoo Tribe Muscogee (Creek) Nation Oklahoma City Indian Clinic Oklahoma State Department of Health Otoe-Missouria Tribe Pawnee Nation Sac and Fox Nation Wichita & Affiliated Tribes The Harold Hamm Oklahoma Diabetes Center Tribal Contacts click here	Step1	Check our coalition members to see if your tribe is a current partner with NYPD Kids today! If they're not, consider asking them to find out more about NYPD.
	Step2	Contact your tribe or a tribe in your area that is listed as our partner and tell them you are interested in joining NYPD Kids for 2012!
	Step3	Complete the registration packet provided to you by the tribe to get signed up for NYPD Kids 2012!
	"Roses are Red... Violets are Blue... We Love Camp Cimarron... And the NYPD Nurses TOO!" - Cabin #1 "I know not to eat too many dirty toes" (Doritos) "If it wasn't hot, it wouldn't be NYPD camp." "Can I come back next year? Please!!!"